The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-05-13

was held in st. LOUIS ON the 4th. Mayor D.
K Francis presided.
TIE Minneapolis Chamber Of Commerce
has instructed its secretary to enter pro-
test against the Milwaukee & St Paul and
Omaha roads for making special milling
rates to al points except that city and st.
Paul
TH. executive committee Of the Nationa:
Labor Union party has selected Indianapo-
Lie n tho headquarters.
The body Of Duncan NcKinnan was re-
Gently brought to Eau Claire, Wis, for bu-
rial from Little Jump river. He and eight
others were simultaneously struck by
lightning while working on . log drive.
HcKinnau was instantly killed and John
NcGregan was probably fatally injured.
The others were injured, but recovered.
The Chinese quarters in San Jose, Cal,
were destroyed by fire recently. Loss,
SIS, 90; insurance, ~, QUO.
THE Union Steel Company Of Chicago has
shut down, throwing 750men out Of work.
The wheat crop Of Ohio this year is esti-
mated at q, 400 600 bushels, against 40, 600 coo
bushels last year.
The Michigan Senate has voted-19 to Is
not to adopt capital punishment for muir
der ana rape.
TINE other night freight train on the st.
Louis & Iron Mountain railroad, bound
south, was thrown from the track by land
slide near Cliff Cave station. In one Of the
box cars were two men, John O'Malley, Of
st. Louis, and an unknown man. They
were buried beneath the debris and when
exhumcd were dead.
THREE Mexican sheep herders were found
dead seventy-five miles west Of Albu-
q Ierque, N. H., shortly after the recent
earthquake. 1t was supposed they had
died of fright.
THE st. Louis Supplies Manufacturing
Company, an old and well known establish
ment, doing business ON North Main street,
has made an assignment. The company
owed its directors about $3.50, 900. The total
liabilities were $4,000.
THE SOUTH.
A SHOCK Of earthquake was felt at Ell
Paso, Tex, on the Sd, which lasted about
two minutes. For probably two minutes
the shock, many persons no
tlced distinct and offensive smell of sui
phur. An earthquake shock was also felt
at Albuquerque, N. NJ.
ONE man was crushed to death and five
others badly hurt by the caving of gravel
bank near Fort Worth, Tex, recently
A PREMATURE blast caused the death of
twelve men in the COosa tunnel of the
Georgia Central railway extension on the
4th.
THE Kentucky Democratic State conven-
ton met at Louisville on the 4th. Resolu-
tons endorsing Cleveland's administration
were introduced. General s. B. Buckner
was nominated for Governor
A FIRE in Julia street, between Magazine
and Camp streets, New Orleans, recently
destroyed cistern making establishment,
three brick buildings, a boarding house, a
double frame cottage and two-story brick
Loss. slOO, 200; insurance, $780, 600.
Two lives were lost.
ATTEMPTS made recently by physicians
Of South Carolina to discover whether the
remains of Peter s. Ney, buried near Sails
bury in that State, were those of Marshal
Ney, of France, failed because of the decay
Of that part Of the skull where the Marshal
had been trephined.
In the Florida Legislature on the 4th the
vote for United States Senator was as fol-
lows: Perry 3, Pasco 19, Bloxham 26, Good
rich 16, scattering7.
SEVEN ballots were taken for United
West Virginia on the 4th. The first stood:
Raymond l. There are only insignificant
changes in the subsequent ballots. Senator
then withdrew.
The Richmond 4 Danville Railroad Com
pany assumed control of the East Tennes-
see, Virginia & Georgia on the 18th.
THE West Virginia House of Delegates,
ray, IF 70 lot II
road traffic, adopted q JOINT resolution ap-
passed by Congress.
Tenn, recently tied up naked his fourteen
year-old son for some boyish indiscretion,
and whipped him with blacksnake whip
until he became unconscious, and at the
pleading of his mother was taken down.
The lad died next morning. The father
fed.
AT Wilmington, n. c., recently four negro
boys were killed by the accidental dis
charge Of double-barreled gun. Another
boy was wounded.
]. H. MADDOX, who was one of the noted
witnesses from Louisiana in the electoral
count commission, died in Alexandria, Va,
ShAhLES JAMES ACLhNEh, u MarUluS-
burg, has been elected United States Sena-
tor for West Virginia.
IT was recently reported that the rise in
the Ouachlta river in Arkadelphia, La,
was fifteen feet, and q fearful overflow
was impending. People were moving to
the hills, and much destruction of property
and stock was feared, especially as many
cattle were In the bottoms and could not
be driven out.
T. B. Boards private bank at Richmond,
Tex, has closed with s64 600 liabilities and
e62, 600 assets.
EX-SENATOR CAMDEN, of West Virginia,
was exonerated by the investigating COM
nittee of the bribery charges.
SEVERAL Of the pearl fishing boats,
thought to have been lost in the recent hur-
ricane of Western Australia. were blown
out to sea and have returned.
DR.. KELLY, Mr.. Parnelrs physician. who
has been in regular attendance on the Ma
tionalist leader, reports that Mr.. Parnell is
from bronchitis, and that he is
unable to leave Avondale. He requires rest
and quiet.
The British steamer John Knox was lost
of Cape Race, N. F. All on board, about
thirty persons, were drowned. The boat
was bound from Glasgow for Quebec.
The storekeeper of large warehouse at
Havana. Cuba, has disappeared. He is SAID
to have stolen $40O, O0O.
The gunpowder works at Hounslow, En-
gland, were destroyed by an explosion the
other day. One man was killed.
One hundred and fifty miners were en-
.ombed by an explosion in shaft Of the
Victoria Company's coal mine at Nanaimo,
B. c., on the night Of the Sd. 1t was thought
hat all the men must have persisted as the